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| Periwinkles 8x8 oil on gallery wrap |
Oh the joys and headaches of painting....somedays it's there and others it's just not. Somedays I think I would have been better off using my painting as target practice! Ever feel that way? The creative process is something that is so abstract and undefinable that it's virtually impossible (for me at least) to put it into words. I found a blog thanks to my friend Wanda and was reading it last night that more appropriately states what I am feeling right now. The artist basically states how absurd it seems what we spend our time, days, hours doing this thing and that the creative process can be maddening.
There is an art… or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
He continues with one of the best descriptions of art-making I have every heard:
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it’s going to hurt. That is, it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
If you would like to read the blog in it's entirety: The blog and art photography of Daniel Sroka.
